shortcake2012

I purchased cheater quilt fabric without knowing what it was . Now that I have it I don't know what to do with it. I know I can count on this board for help and suggestions. Thank you

osewme

I had never heard of cheater quilt fabric until you posted here. I looked it up and found out that it's fabric with quilting patterns/blocks/etc. already printed on the fabric to make it "look" like it's been pieced. Now that I think back, I've seen this used on bed quilts in stores like Walmart, Target, etc. Maybe you could make pillow cases out of it. How much did you buy? How about some whole cloth charity quilts? You will still sandwich it together & quilt & bind it. I think it would be nice for charity quilts.

quiltingcandy

Without knowing what it is (looks like) and how much it is hard to recommend anything. If you want to practice FMQ that is a good fabric to practice. If you don't want to keep it around, I agree with Osewme - make it up and donate it to a charity.

Eva Knight

I have bought cheater fabric before. I layered it and made a quilt just as if I had pieced it myself. Nothing wrong doing that.

MadQuilter

You can use it to practice quilting. A lot of the ones I've seen were turned into child-size quilts and turned into community service for donation.

Tartan

You can use it for backing and follow the design from the back to quilt.

nativetexan

long ago i had one and made it the center of a full size quilt. added borders. maybe corner blocks. can't remember. but it turned out well. no photo, sorry.

lynnie

I got one about 25 yrs ago. I did a lot of hand quilting on it. i gave it to my brother. when I got to his apt, about 5 yrs later, it was the dogs quilt all torn up. He said they loved it to death. also, he kept the backing side up! go figure. No more quilts for him, ever! I just too the blocks and hand quilted each one, then put some sashes between. have fun with it.

shortcake2012

I pay to have my quilts quilted, would I just ask for an all over pattern?

dunster

I bought a cheater top for practice on the longarm. It was so large I wound up cutting it into 3 separate pieces - after it was quilted.